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Barber's Boy. Jimmy was born Feb. 10, 1893, on Manhattan's swarming Lower East Side, the youngest of three boys and a girl. His mother was a Neapolitan, and gave Jimmy her nose. His father, Barthelmeo was a French-Italian barber. As his father's helper...
Nothing was the same at Tammany Hall. This was the first election night at Tammany's new headquarters, a modest suite in a loft building on Manhattan's Madison Avenue. There was no bonfire outside, no vast crowd roaring to celebrate. The phones, which used to jangle out...
Burly Mike Kennedy, his jowls buried deep in the folds of his great bull neck, listened to the results by radio, like any other citizen. Sitting in the midst of the fitful, strained conversation, he had plenty of time to reflect on the newest scandal-his alleged hand-in-glove...
Five coeds from Columbia University School of Journalism suddenly descended into the gloom, atwitter to cover election night at Tammany Hall. They chatted brightly with the little circle of politicos, took copious notes, departed. After they were gone, the silence was tomblike. From the radio came the monotonous chant of...
By 10 o'clock Mike Kennedy, who ascended Tammany's throne last year as the choice of Franklin Roosevelt's good friend, Senator Robert F. Wagner, sat somberly alone.